FedEx Freight President & CEO Michael L. Ducker to Retire August 15
April 16 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX) today announced that Michael L.
Ducker, President and CEO of its FedEx Freight subsidiary, will
retire effective August 15, 2018. Ducker took the helm at FedEx
Freight in 2014 after spending close to 40 years at FedEx Express.
His successor will be named later.
“For more than 43 years, Mike Ducker has answered the call when
FedEx asked him to lead in each new opportunity and role. Whether
in Europe, Asia or the Americas, Mike has been a model of our
People-Service-Profit philosophy. His leadership and strategic
instinct have been integral in growing the global business we have
today,” said Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corp. chairman and chief
executive officer. “There is no way to pinpoint his greatest
accomplishment, but I can tell you it is hard to imagine FedEx
without Mike Ducker, and that is the mark of a truly
transformational leader.”
Ducker joined FedEx Express in 1975 and served in the company’s
frontline operations at the Memphis Hub. After rising through the
ground operations ranks in the U.S. in the 1980s, he accepted his
first international assignment as Vice President of Southern Europe
based in Milan, Italy, in 1991. He became the Vice President of the
South Pacific and Middle East region in 1992, and then Senior Vice
President of the Asia/Pacific region in 1995. He returned to the
U.S. in 1999 as Executive Vice President/President, International.
In 2009, he also became the Chief Operating Officer of FedEx
Express before assuming his current role at FedEx Freight.
About FedEx Corp.
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) provides customers and businesses
worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and
business services. With annual revenues of $64 billion, the company
offers integrated business applications through operating companies
competing collectively and managed collaboratively, under the
respected FedEx brand. Consistently ranked among the world's most
admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires its more than 425,000
team members to remain "absolutely, positively" focused on safety,
the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of
their customers and communities. To learn more about how FedEx
connects people and possibilities around the world, please visit
about.fedex.com.
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